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Anderson, Mark E. – OSSC Bulletin, 1988
Team management became popular during the late 1960s and early 1970s as educators adopted the concept to help solve the increasingly complex problems facing schools. The mere existence of a management team of central office and building administrators does not mean that team management is being practiced. Chapter 1 enumerates the benefits of team…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Management Teams
Download full textBushman, Brad J. – 1983
Although there are many variables that influence conformity, Bickman (1974) found that the apparel of the person making a request had a significant influence on conformity. To evaluate other factorswhicn may influence conformity (gender, age, status of the conforming subject, and altruism in conforming), 150 adult pedestrians (45% female, 71%…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Altruism, Clothing
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Washington, DC. – 1988
The questions that observers of Congress have posed throughout U.S. history continue to confront citizens: how have the constitutional powers of Congress adapted to new conditions, and how has this affected Congress's relations with the other branches of government. Congress, in its constitutional design, is part of the remedy for the problems of…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federal Government, Governmental Structure
Clark, Burton R. – 1978
The knowledge work of higher education is carried out in every country in a differentiated structure that divides and allocates tasks within and among institutions; Certain features of differentiation are likely to be common among national systems: the basic sectioning of the natural sciences in such fields as physics, chemistry, and biology, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Governance
Bruening, William H. – 1978
Justification is given for paying relatively large salaries to college administrators, specifically the president or chancellor and the chief academic officer. Three administrative task areas are discussed as criteria: management, administration per se, and leadership. It is contended that only leadership can be used as a criterion for…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Administrators, College Administration
Jantz, Alfred H. – Personnel Journal, 1975
Some realistic changes in the traditional authority-responsibility organizational concepts, which would recognize creativity, initiative, influence, and potential accomplishments, would involve people in industry who do not have formal authority or status--just talent. (Author/BP)
Descriptors: Creativity, Employees, Employer Attitudes, Individual Development
Opubor, Alfred E. – Monda Lingvo-Problemo, 1972
The article investigates the concept of language as an instrument of power, discussing the power relationships that are mirrored in language situations. Examples of language use in colonial situations are handled in particular, the attitudes of speakers involved being outlined. Other phenomena concerning language and power, such as "naming," are…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Colonialism, Language Planning, Language Role
Munoz, Carlos, Jr. – Aztlan, 1974
Descriptors: Dissent, Mexican Americans, Organizations (Groups), Political Attitudes
Peer reviewedColfer, Carol J. Pierce – Human Organization, 1975
The article describes the political system which operates in an American Indian school and discusses the striking analogy between the school's bureaucratic structure and operation and the structure and operation of a segmentary lineage system. (AUTHOR/NQ)
Descriptors: American Indians, Bureaucracy, Comparative Analysis, Power Structure
Carver, Fred D.; Crowe, Donald O. – Educ Admin Quart, 1969
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Leaders, Economic Factors, Political Power
Baker, Lynn E.; And Others – 1981
A review of the published and unpublished literature on alternative perspectives for viewing organizations provides the basis for this monograph, which includes the contributions of five authors. The papers are intended to serve as a primer for educators interested in newer organizational perspectives and to stimulate them to learn more about, and…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Communication Research, Educational Administration, Innovation
Smith, Carol; Saunders, Paula – 1978
School boards can have relationships to their school systems' central office that feature either democratic, administrative, or political styles of decision-making. The school board members themselves serve as active delegates for community interests, as trustees of educational tradition, or even as passive rubber stamps for the central office's…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Decision Making, Educational Research
Zirkel, Perry A.; Guditus, Charles W. – 1979
In 1960, French and Raven postulated five bases of supervisory power: legitimate, expert, referent, reward, and coercive. Research studies in the middle and late 1960s in various work settings revealed the effectiveness of legitimate and expert supervisory power on worker behavior and satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Power, Power Structure
PATTERSON, WADE N. – 1968
THIS STUDY ATTEMPTS TO RELATE THE VARIABLES OF POWER AND INFLUENCE TO OPERATIONAL DECISIONMAKING IN SELECTED HIGH SCHOOLS. TWO HIGH SCHOOLS IN A WEST COAST CITY ARE EXAMINED (1) TO DETERMINE THE RELATIVE DEGREE OF DECISIONMAKING INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS AND GROUPS, (2) TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF PERSONS WITHOUT FORMAL (OFFICIAL)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, High Schools, Organizational Climate, Power Structure
WILEY, GLENN ELBERT – 1967
A STUDY WAS MADE OF A REPRESENTATIVE MIDWESTERN SCHOOL DISTRICT TO DETERMINE SCHOOL LEADERS' AWARENESS OF (1) INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INFLUENTIAL IN THE DECISIONMAKING PROCESS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION AND (2) ACTIONS PERFORMED BY EACH INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUAL IN THE DECISIONAL PROCESS. THE RESEARCH PROCEDURE INCLUDES IDENTIFICATION AND RANK…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Community Leaders, Decision Making, Policy Formation
